Prices and timeframes I'm pulling from the back of my brain so its all IIRC and for actual use from sellers - YMMV.
The labels are showing EMC - probably 520B sectors. You may need to reformat unless you have an EMC SAN in your lab or the seller changed the blocksize when they wiped.
The HUSMM1616 's are tanks. MLC. Very good IOPS performance, very good DWPD, very good endurance. But tend to draw high power under load. The 1.6TB version have been as low as 135 within the last year and the 3.2TB's as low as 235 within the last 45 days. IIRC BuyBest had both of those discounted prices - these items/prices are basically documented in the threads here.
Mainstream seller prices on the 1.6TB have been between 165 and 225, except for the last 45 days where the prices jumped up to the 250-300/drive range and I can only assume because of demand/availability (seeing the same thing with SM PWS-920P-SQ - but don't want to thread hijack).
buybest, boardroomtech I have used repeatedly over the last 4 years and by and large they communicate relatively quickly and will answer questions and if I had an issue they resolved it quickly and to my satisfaction. Note, I have no relationship with those sellers other than as a consumer.
g-electronic - I have not purchased from
but they have a muddy reputation over in the brocade mega-thread. They sold a lot of ICX switches that had been refurbished, "tested good and ready for resell" but when the buyer received them they were patently NOT working. But switches aren't SSD's so your YMMV.
IMO and in this day and age the good sellers are reporting health status and actually wiping them and providing sample reports.
The one-offs or those that are turning and burning hardware lots are doing minmial testing.
If I were in the market for drives right now I'd ask the seller explicitly if they have the health statistics for the drives - or at least a range of health ratings for the lot they are selling. I'd expect that data to be available to them if they really tested them and wiped them... Given that most of us here do check health first thing with drives we purchased the knowledge is out there and is NOT arcane...
My 2 cents: Do your homework on the seller and don't just rely on eBay reviews/ratings.
